Jackie Hagan

Jackie is a multi-award-winning theatre maker, playwright, solo artist, stand up comedian, poet and community arts worker. She is a working class, queer amputee and believes in the necessity of live art to effect lasting social change. Her first solo show ‘Some People Have Too Many Legs’ won the Saboteur award for Best Spoken Word Show 2015 and in 2017 she was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship.

‘above all there is the fierce optimism and dogged determination to turn tragedy into something quirkily, crazily beautiful.’ // SABOTAGE REVIEWS